Teaching and learning

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Explicitly teaching skills in disciplinary inquiry. One of the topics that can fuel hours of teacher dialog is the difference between assigning tasks and teaching the process by which tasks can be pursued through inquiry.

Assigning might consist of telling students to do a task. Teaching a process involves teaching approaches to learning, which might allow students to problem solve for the task. It is one thing to talk about how scientists solve problems using scientific inquiry, and it is another thing altogether to experience using scientific inquiry to solve a problem.
Three Myths About “Reading Levels”
5 ways to turn a worksheet into a collaborative critical-thinking activity - The Cornerstone For Teachers. Worksheets: we all have to give them, we all hate doing it.

Here are 5 no prep ways you can turn just about any lower level thinking or rote practice worksheet (like a multiple choice or fill-in-the-blank quiz, or math drill workbook page) into an activity that’s collaborative and includes higher level thinking skills. The strategies work for grades 3-12 (and can be modified for students who aren’t yet reading/writing independently). The best part? The activities are engaging for kids and FUN. These 5 active learning strategies and games have absolutely saved me and my third graders when I was required to give yet ANOTHER test prep activity: 1) Cut Apart. Ancient Indigenous site Budj Bim a step closer to World Heritage status after a big day for Portland district. "No," said June Gill, "I never could have imagined something like this when I was living on the old mission.

"They blew up our church, you know, and our old houses. They kicked my grandfather, James Lovett, off the mission some time around World War I because he wasn't black enough.
" Mrs Gill and her cousin of the Lovett clan, Laura Bell, elders of the Gunditjmara​ people, gazed across Lake Condah, its water finally returned after white settlers drained it in the late 1800s, robbing its Indigenous owners of bird life and the eels that had sustained them for thousands of years. And there, on the lake's bank, came Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews, Environment Minister Josh Frydenberg, the Veterans Affairs Minister and local member for Wannon, Dan Tehan, and assorted VIPs.

13 Short Stories for Engaging Secondary Students & Teaching Literary Elements - The Literary Maven. Strategies to Help Struggling Writers. It's the day that my first-year college students are sharing the outlines/rough drafts of their final essays with their peers.

The Egyptian Book of the Dead: A guidebook for the underworld - Tejal Gala. Ani’s Book of the Dead, found in his tomb in Thebes, is lauded for its vivid illustrations and colorful vignettes.

Sir Wallis Budge purchased the papyrus in 1888 for the British Museum’s collection and divided the 78-foot scroll into 37 sheets for easier reading. You can read Budge’s translation of the Papyrus of Ani here.Though the name is a bit confusing, the Egyptian Book of the Dead is not a bound book but rather a collection of funerary texts written on papyrus scroll. The scrolls were individualized based on people’s wealth and personal preferences. Though the most expensive ones included customized texts and images, people could also purchase cheaper pre-made Books and scribes would only write the name in. Explore this website to learn about how the funerary texts evolved to be accessible to everyone, not just the royals.

Although it offers multiple benefits, please don't view closure as a professional must-do. What Is Closure? Closure is the activity that ends a lesson and creates a lasting impression, a phenomenon that Colorado State University professor Rod Lucero calls the recency effect. Teachers use closure to:
10 Team-Building Games That Promote Collaborative Critical Thinking. One of education’s primary goals is to groom the next generation of little humans to succeed in the “real world.”

Yes, there are mounds of curricula they must master in a wide breadth of subjects, but education does not begin and end with a textbook or test. Other skills must be honed, too, not the least of which is how to get along with their peers and work well with others. This is not something that can be cultivated through rote memorization or with strategically placed posters. Students must be engaged and cooperation must be practiced, and often. The following team-building games can promote cooperation and communication, help establish a positive classroom environment and — most importantly — provide a fun, much-needed reprieve from routine.
Data to Go. Teaching the teachers. TO THE 11- and 12-year-olds in his maths class, Jimmy Cavanagh seems like a born teacher.

Some call it anecdotal or informal assessment. However, such designations imply passivity -- as if certain things were captured accidentally. I believe the word "formative" should always be included with the word assessment because all feedback mechanisms should help shape and improve the person (or situation) being assessed.
5 Tips for Making Group Work Manageable. When teachers ask students to work on a task in groups, they issue an invitation for engagement and, potentially, for chaos!

Here are five tips that can help encourage productivity and keep mayhem at bay. 1.
Teacher Librarian Help. This research guide is under construction (I haven’t had time to fully hyperlink). You are welcome to use what I have done below and/or look at my Scoop.it on Ancient China Photo: Terra-Cotta warriors, China. Australian Curriculum – Ancient China. Ancient Egyptian coffin found to hold youngest known mummified foetus. Dagger in Tutankhamun's tomb was made with iron from a meteorite. A dagger entombed with King Tutankhamun was made with iron from a meteorite, a new analysis on the metal composition shows. In 1925, archaeologist Howard Carter found two daggers, one iron and one with a blade of gold, within the wrapping of the teenage king, who was mummified more than 3,300 years ago. The iron blade, which had a gold handle, rock crystal pommel and lily and jackal-decorated sheath, has puzzled researchers in the decades since Carter’s discovery: ironwork was rare in ancient Egypt, and the dagger’s metal had not rusted.

Italian and Egyptian researchers analysed the metal with an x-ray fluorescence spectrometer to determine its chemical composition, and found its high nickel content, along with its levels of cobalt, “strongly suggests an extraterrestrial origin”. They compared the composition to known meteorites within 2,000km around the Red Sea coast of Egypt, and found similar levels in one meteorite.
How to Be a Better Writer: 6 Tips From Harvard’s Steven Pinker. U want 2B a better writer? Good writing is often looked at as an art and, frankly, that can be intimidating.

No need to worry. There are rules — even science — behind writing well. Our brain works a particular way; so what rules do we need to know to write the way the brain best understands? To find out the answer I gave Steven Pinker a call.
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50 Questions To Promote Metacognition In Students. 10 tips for better slide decks. Downloaddoc. Graham Wegner – Open Educator. STEM Curriculum Turned Into An Addictive Game. Sheninger on why teachers should be preparing their students for jobs that don't even exist yet. How do teachers prepare their students for jobs that don’t even exist yet?

5 Tips for a More Meaningful Rubric. Sarah Wike Loyola , Upper School Spanish Teacher, Spanish Team Leader, and Technology Mentor in Charlotte, NC. Formative Assessment Is Transformational!
I think formative assessment is one of the single most important things that teachers can do -- and already do -- for their students. In fact, great teachers use formative assessment whether or not they know it.
5 Questions To Drive Personal-Professional Learning. Image created by @GPearsonEDU using Canva.